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    To Plan Or Not To Plan

    Yeh, I plan, for like two minutes. I don't really memorise essays, I've memorised certain paragraphs that revolve around ideas, and thesis statements. Generally in my plan, I'll start by jotting down the points I'll talk about, and since I've studied my quotes, I know which quotes to use, and...
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    Audition/Competition at Syd Con and UNSW

    I know kids who go to Con High and kids who are in Con uni, and generally kids who want to go to the con: you have to remember that you are competing with people who have played their instruments for maybe more than 10 years, and can have their AMus and LMus. This is your competition. If you're...
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    Trial Discussion Thread.

    I feel like I'm dying with english, I have three days to memorise my 4 essays, make sure I understand additional points in all the texts and I'm not even going to bother with my creative because I have no idea what to write about and I'm better at writing creatively. Physics also is so nasty, it...
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    Stress and Trials

    My trials are in 3 days and I have a major work due right in the middle of them, and my art major due 2 weeks after that. I feel like I'm dying: I'm still writing up one of my English essays, I still have to memorise three, also what if I'm not able to fit them into the question and all this...
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    Help/criticise my extended ideas for my creative please!

    Hi. My trials are coming up quite soon and I have not sorted out the sequence of my creative piece yet. I know that I am writing it about a recluse, but I do not know why she is a recluse, if she is happy sad or deluded, if family plays a role in her life or if in her utter aloneness she has...
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    Distinctively Visual Other Related Texts?

    I'm doing the movie the Tree of Life by Terrence Malick as related text for the Shoe-Horn Sonata... Does anyone else have ideas?
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    Essays for exams

    You really shouldn't memorise whole essays for exams- you've got to answer the question.
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    Essay writing- Poetry

    Right, I'm in Year 11 and for my yearlies, I was just wondering if anyone had tips on essay structure- I know about statement, evidence, explanation and link, but since we have to refer to at least 2 poems in the essay, I was wondering how one would go about sequencing that. Thanks!
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    Help for a speech on 'Whose Life is it Anyway?' by Brian Clark

    If anyone has any notes or thoughts on how the play discusses the importance of control in one's life, that would be much appreciated (:
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    English Supplementary Material Topic: Change

    Woah, that was quicker than expected. Thanks!
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    English Supplementary Material Topic: Change

    Hey, I'm studying Looking For Alibrandi in my Standard English class, and I'm looking for a supplementary text I could use to base my half-yearly essay around. Preferably a poem or song. Thanks!
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